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Title:
Terraformed : young black lives in the inner city
Summary:
}Urban Music & Entrepreneurship{ author Joy White presents a clear-eyed assessment of structural racism as a shaping force across young black people's lives in the east London neighbourhood of Newham, revealing how racism operates alongside neoliberalism, austerity and gentrification. Since the 1980s, austerity, gentrification and structural racism have wreaked havoc on inner-city communities, widening inequality and entrenching poverty.In Terraformed, Joy White offers an insider ethnography of Forest Gate - a neighbourhood in Newham, east London - analysing how these issues affect the black youth of today. Connecting the dots between music, politics and the built environment, it centres the lived experiences of black youth who have had it all: huge student debt, invisible homelessness, custodial sentences, electronic tagging, surveillance, arrest, ASBOs, issues with health and well-being, and of course, loss.Part ethnography, part memoir, Terraformed contextualises the history of Newham and considers how young black lives are affected by racism, neoliberalism and austerity.
Author:
White, Joy, 1962- author.
ISBN:
9781912248681
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Publication Information:
London : Repeater, 2020.
Physical Description:
171 pages ; 20 cm